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SERA's new CSIR Relationship Manager, Dr Thulani Dlamini |
Dr Thulani Dlamini, Group Executive of Research and Development at the CSIR, has taken over from Khungeka Njobe as CSIR Relationship Manager for SERA. He will share the responsibility with Prof Robin Crewe who has been the University of Pretoria Relationship Manager for SERA since 2003.
The two SERA Relationship Managers are responsible for the day-to-day operations of SERA, including the implementation of the business plan, guiding SERA activities and business opportunities, dealing with operational issues and effectively managing the Alliance investment in research projects and joint ventures.
Dr Dlamini's portfolio within the CSIR includes strengthening R&D in the organisation, R&D strategy, emerging research areas and information services. Before being appointed to this position, Dlamini provided strategic leadership to the CSIR National Laser Centre for two years. He joined the CSIR from Sasol, where he had been chief scientist and group leader in the chemistry division.
Among his qualifications are a PhD (Chemistry) from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MBL from Unisa. He attended the Mastering Technology Enterprise advanced course in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2007 and completed a course on technology, markets and economics in the petrochemical industry with the Princeton Oxford Programme in 2004.
Dlamini is currently Chair of the steering committee for the South African photonics initiative; sits on the Board of the Automotive Industry Development Centre; and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the African Laser Centre. In 2007 he also served as a member of the international scientific advisory board of the first international conferences on lasers and plasma applications in materials science.
Dlamini holds five patents and has published a number of articles in scientific journals.
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